The Place Of Prayer

October 23, 2007, 4:55 p
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bible, Life, prayer, study

I was reading this morning in Luke chapter 1 and saw something that I have looked at and even looked into many times, but saw in a different light this morning. Often times in the place of prayer I remind myself that God is a God who sees, and hears. Not only do I think about these realities but I speak them out loud so that I hear them with my ears and they become part of my emotional make up. I have talked to some people about the things I do as far as speaking different things over my life, and they say that’s new age and you need to be careful. All that I am doing is another form of reading the word or rather getting the word into my head, so that my heart can connect with it and release change into my physical body. What we are to do is agree with what the Word says concerning our life in Christ and then declare that over our selves changing our emotional makeup so that we live out what the Bible says we can live out.

So in speaking things over my life, I daily in the place of prayer remind myself that God is a God who is not disconnected from His people. I would say something like “I thank You that You always hear me”. “I thank You that You are a God who neither sleeps nor slumbers.” Even now as I am praying before You, You are seated on the throne, and You have eyes, and ears and a heart”. “Your real”!! These are some of the phrases that I use in reminding myself that He sees and hears me. So often I think you and I lose heart in the place of prayer because we forget that He is listening and cares about our prayers. We forget that our weak prayers, and the weak movements of our heart move His heart. In Revelations Chapter 2 and verse’s 1-5 it says that He is the One who walks in and out of the golden lamp stands. What that means is that His complaint with the loveless Church was a complaint that He complied from His own experience with this group of people. There’s powerful truths in that. The powerful truth is that He is not a God who is disconnected from His people, but rather a God who has been acquainted with the ways of man and sees us up close and personal and has something to say from that vantage point. We must remind ourselves of this reality.

So back to what I was reading this morning and how all this is connected. In Luke Chapter 1 and Verse Number 13 the Bible says this:

But the Angel said to him, “do not be afraid Zacharias, for your prayer is heard; and your wife Elizabeth will bear a son, and you shall call his name John”.

So the context of this verse is that Zacharias was in the temple praying as it was his time to come into the place of prayer and an angel visited him and delivered this word to him. Now Zacharias had been in the temple before in the place of prayer, cause he was from a Priestly Tribe which meant that he was among the few that were able to go into the place of prayer and offer sacrifices to God. The powerful thing about this, is that he had done this many times before but this time was different then the other times. This time God chose to intervene and break in over this man and answer the deep prayer of his heart. There are several things that jump out to me but the one I want to address here is what the angel said to Zacharias.

The Angel said to him, behold your prayer has been heard. He tells him that he has been praying and though he might have felt like God hadn’t heard him, or that God had not paid attention these thoughts were incorrect concerning the Lord. The Lord Himself came and set things straight with Zach by sending the Angel to him and let Him know that his prayer was heard. We to must come into a place in the place of prayer that we remember and remind ourselves that God really does hear our prayers, and He really sees the weak movements of our hearts. If we have to, we need to say these things out loud and stir ourselves us and look at scriptures the refer to God being a real Man and Him having eyes and ears and a heart that has the capacity to feel and have emotion. Be encouraged that God has heard your prayer and that He really listens to us.

Pressing In And Moving On

What Im Up To

Pages

Blogroll

Tags

Flickr Photos